Remember when Ron Johnson did away with sales and coupons and revolutionized retail? You might not, but the stockholders sure do (even if the company has un-done everything from the brief Ron Johnson era that it can, down to the logo.)

'Duck Dynasty' wings clipped

A&E scrambled to keep everyone happy after being shocked (shocked!) by the discovery that family patriarch Phil Robertson, a born-again Christian, has some very old-school thoughts on homosexuality.

Paula Deen speaks out

A U.K. ad featured a car with emissions so low that it can't generate enough carbon monoxide for a dude to kill himself. Like 100% of suicide-themed ads, it did not go over well.

Guns & Ammo's 'gun control' editorial

Imagine a pro-Microsoft piece in MacWorld. Now multiply that by 100. That's what happened when Guns & Ammo ran a piece in favor of some gun regulation. The writer was shown the door and Editor-in-Chief Jim Bequette stepped down.

GoldieBlox vs. Beastie Boys

The internet loved the GoldiBlox video for girl-empowering toys using a parody of the Beastie Boys' "Girls" for a sountrack. But it turns out the band has a gender-neutral approach to not allowing its music in ads.

That '60 Minutes' Benghazi report

When the most important source for this report, which subsequently had to be retracted, all but claimed to have taken out 60 guys (and a bear) with dental floss and an ink pen, someone should have called in the fact-checking special forces.